- Title: Hong Kongers kick off weekend march
- Date: 31st August 2019
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Cantonese) 18-YEAR-OLD'S STUDENT TIFFANY CHAN SAYING: "I think [how the police handle the insurance of] the non-objection letter is unreasonable. The letter is to facilitate the police to open up roads for the protest and manage the traffic. Now, it has become a tool for the government to limit Hong Kongers' freedom to march and organise rally." PROTESTERS PUNCHING FISTS IN THE AIR AND SHOUTING (Cantonese): "ADD OIL HONG KONG PEOPLE" 62-YEAR-OLD'S RETIREE CHONG MENG LEI DRINKING FROM FLASK (SOUNDBITE) (Cantonese) 62-YEAR-OLD'S RETIREE CHONG MENG LEI SAYING: "I believe those people [who join the march in Causeway Bay this afternoon] know that they may be arrested, include me, I might be arrested too. But I won't be afraid, I will do what I think is right, I won't be scared of the white terror."
- Embargoed: 14th September 2019 08:42
- Keywords: Hong Kong protests religious group extradition bill march
- Location: HONG KONG, CHINA
- City: HONG KONG, CHINA
- Country: Hong Kong
- Topics: Society/Social Issues,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA002AUJR0W7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Hong Kong braced for another wave of protests on Saturday (August 31) in the latest of a series of anti-government demonstrations that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.
Thousands of black-clad protesters braved heavy pouring to join a religious gathering in Southorn Playground, while some of them gathered near Chater Garden in central and heading towards the government house. The protest also spread out to a main shopping district, Causeway Bay.
Despite facing the possibility that they could be arrested after authority clamped down on activists the previous day, a protester said he will continue to do what he thinks is right.
Police on Friday (August 30) blocked plans for a mass show of force marking the fifth anniversary of a decision by China to curtail democratic reforms in the former British colony, which returned to China in 1997.
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